Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the al­leged kid­nap­ping and rape of a woman by a taxi dri­ver and pas­sen­ger on Mon­day night.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing that pro­posed amend­ments to the pub­lic pro­cure­ment law would re­duce the pow­ers of the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) and give min­is­ters greater dis­cre­tion over pro­cure­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Ghana­ian Pres­i­dent John Dra­mani Ma­hama have signed an Air Ser­vices Agree­ment aimed at strength­en­ing air links be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Africa.

Act­ing Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, who ar­rived in the Unit­ed States yes­ter­day to at­tend the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA), is sched­uled to meet US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to­day and Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to­mor­row.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she will not au­tho­rise spe­cial op­er­a­tions in Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled com­mu­ni­ties, de­clar­ing that the Gov­ern­ment’s new crime-fight­ing mea­sures will in­stead be con­cen­trat­ed in Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)-held con­stituen­cies and To­ba­go.

Rel­a­tives of 24-year-old Bar­i­on Pat­ter­son are de­mand­ing an­swers af­ter he was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing over the week­end.

Move­ment in­to and out of des­ig­nat­ed com­mu­ni­ties could be­come sub­ject to a per­mit sys­tem if an area is de­clared a “closed area” un­der Gov­ern­ment’s new Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill, 2026.

What be­gan as a joy­ous an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion in To­ba­go near­ly end­ed in tragedy on Sun­day when two boats col­lid­ed at high speed near Pi­geon Point, leav­ing nine peo­ple in­jured, in­clud­ing four for­eign na­tion­als.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment is ex­pect­ed to present amend­ments to the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to­mor­row (Wednes­day), prompt­ing strong crit­i­cism from Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MPs Stu­art Young and Do­minic Ro­main, who ar­gue the changes would sig­nif­i­cant­ly weak­en pro­cure­ment over­sight and cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for cor­rup­tion.

World Peace Day was cel­e­brat­ed with a dis­tinct­ly lo­cal flavour yes­ter­day, as mem­bers of the pro­tec­tive ser­vices, gov­ern­ment work­ers and passers-by in down­town Port-of-Spain were served com­pli­men­ta­ry dou­bles as a ges­ture of ap­pre­ci­a­tion for their ef­forts in pro­mot­ing peace.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to ad­dress the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly around 6 pm to­day, be­gin­ning what is ex­pect­ed to be a packed diplo­mat­ic sched­ule in New York be­fore re­turn­ing home for Re­pub­lic Day cel­e­bra­tions on Thurs­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has vot­ed in favour of a Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion al­low­ing Pales­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ab­bas to ad­dress this week’s high-lev­el de­bate vir­tu­al­ly af­ter the Unit­ed States barred him from trav­el­ling to New York.